- Clear pod binding cache on bind error to make sure stale pod binding cache will not be used. ([#71212](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71212), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))
- Fixed a scheduler panic due to internal cache inconsistency ([#71063](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71063), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

  - The disk-cached discovery client is moved from k8s.io/client-go/discovery to k8s.io/client-go/discovery/cached/disk.
The memory-cached discovery client is moved from k8s.io/client-go/discovery/cached to k8s.io/client-go/discovery/cached/memory.
([#72214](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72214), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

- To reduce chances of throttling, VM cache is set to nil when Azure node provisioning state is deleting ([#87635](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87635), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Fix the bug PIP's DNS is deleted if no DNS label service annotation isn't set. ([#87312](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87312), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: set nil cache entry based on old cache ([#87591](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87591), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* The following deprecated flags were removed from `kube-controller-manager`:

  * `replication-controller-lookup-cache-size`
  * `replicaset-lookup-cache-size`
  * `daemonset-lookup-cache-size`

  Don't use these flags. Using deprecated flags causes the server to print a warning. Using a removed flag causes the server to abort the startup.

### SIG Scheduling

- The equivalence class cache has been redesigned to be a two level cache, resulting in a significant increase in scheduling throughput and performance. ([#65714](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65714), [@resouer](https://github.com/resouer))

* Fixed a bug in the API server watch cache, which could cause a missing watch event immediately after cache initialization. ([#49992](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49992), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))



# v1.7.3

- kubeadm: added "disable success" and "disable denial" as parameters of the "cache" plugin in the Corefile managed by kubeadm. This is to prevent conflicting responses during CoreDNS cache updates. ([#128359](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128359), [@matteriben](https://github.com/matteriben)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Added the `DetectCacheInconsistency` feature gate, allowing the API server to periodically verify consistency between its `cache` and `etcd`. Detected inconsistencies reported via the `apiserver_storage_consistency_checks_total` metric and trigger purging of affected cache snapshots. ([#132884](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132884), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Testing]

- Bumped `ProcMountType` feature to on by default beta ([#130798](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130798), [@haircommander](https://github.com/haircommander)) [SIG Node]
- Calculated pod resources are now cached when adding pods to NodeInfo in the scheduler framework, improving performance when processing unschedulable pods. ([#129635](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129635), [@macsko](https://github.com/macsko)) [SIG Scheduling]